reve
See also: revé, revê, rêve, rêvé, révě, and řeve
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French rêver.
Verb
reve
- dream
Mbyá Guaraní
Postposition
reve
- with, accompanied by
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō. Doublet of greyve.
Alternative forms
- refe, reeve, reyve, reove
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreːv(ə)/
Noun
reve (plural reves or reven)
- A reeve or bailiff (a local official); an administrator.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,
- Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve;
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,
- An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
- (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
Related terms
- shirreve
Descendants
- English: reeve
References
- “rẹ̄ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.
Verb
reve
- Alternative form of reven
Noun
reve
- Alternative form of reif
Middle French
Alternative forms
- resve
Etymology
Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rogō (“I ask; I demand”)[1].
Noun
reve f (plural reves)
- a taxation on imports and exports
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rogāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 445
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (reve)
- reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun rev.
Verb
reve (imperative rev, present tense rever, passive reves, simple past reva or revet or revde, past participle reva or revet or revd, present participle revende)
- (nautical) to reef (a sail)
- "Rev seilene, rev seilene!", skrek kapteinen.
References
- “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old High German
Etymology
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Noun
reve
- womb